Upton Sinclair, Jr. Wiki: Parents, Ethnicity, Nationality

Known for movies

Short Info

Died	November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, Mary Craig Sinclair, Meta Fuller
Fact	Out of his own pocket, he sent copies of his novel "The Jungle" to every member of the U.S. Congress and then-President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a voracious speed-reader who read several books a day, read Sinclair's novel and was horrified by the descriptions of conditions in the meat packing industry. He was inspired to champion for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which led to the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.

Upton Sinclair, Jr. was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Upton Beall Sinclair, was a liquor salesman and his mother, Priscilla Harden, was a schoolteacher. He had two older sisters, Helen and Priscilla. Sinclair was educated in the Baltimore public schools and graduated from City College in 1898. He then attended the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Sinclair began his career as a newspaper reporter for the New York Evening Journal. He later worked as a staff writer for Cosmopolitan magazine and as a freelance writer. He also wrote several novels, including “The Jungle” (1906), “King Coal” (1917), and “Oil!” (1927).

In 1934, Sinclair ran for governor of California on the Democratic ticket. He lost the election, but his campaign brought attention to the plight of the poor and working class in California.

Sinclair was married three times. His first wife was Meta Fuller, with whom he had a son, David. His second wife was Mary Craig Kimbrough, with whom he had a son, Upton Sinclair III. His third wife was Mary Elizabeth Willis, with whom he had two sons, John and David.

Sinclair died on November 25, 1968, in Bound Brook, New Jersey.

General Info

Full Name	Upton Sinclair, Jr.
Died	November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
Profession	Author, Journalist, Politician, Film producer, Novelist, Political activist
Education	Columbia University, City College of New York
Nationality	American

Family

Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, Mary Craig Sinclair, Meta Fuller
Children	David Sinclair
Parents	Priscilla Harden Sinclair, Upton Beall Sinclair

Accomplishments

Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nominations	Nobel Prize in Literature, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score, USC Scripter Award
Movies	There Will Be Blood, Sergei Eisenstein. Mexican Fantasy, ¡Que viva México!, The Gnome-Mobile, The Wet Parade, The Jungle, Time in the sun

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0801737

Facts

#	Fact
1	His play, "The Jungle" at the Oracle Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Play Production.
2	Sinclair later wrote up his memories of the 1934 race in a book titled, "How I Got Beat".
3	The Republican campaign against Sinclair generated so much animosity that when a woman announced at a Hollywood cocktail party her intention to vote for him she was forcibly ejected.
4	The Republican campaign against Sinclair's senate race forced them to spend $10 million, a record amount for the Depression.
5	During the 1934 senate race, phony newsreels designed to slander Sinclair were shown in California movie houses. The films had been produced by MGM president, Louis B. Mayer, who was also GOP chairman for California.
6	In his 1934 senate race, his GOP rival ran a successful smear campaign which discredited Sinclair. One of the tactics was to quote Sinclair's written works out of context to make it appear that he was, for example, an opponent of the Boy Scouts, and an advocate of "Free Love".
7	In 1934, he changed his registration to the Democratic Party and ran in the primary for the gubernatorial nomination for the Senate.
8	As a member of the Socialist Party, Sinclair was twice a candidate for Congress, twice the socialist nominee for governor of California, and once a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
9	Biography in: "Current Biography Yearbook 1962". Pages 389-391. The H.W. Wilson Company, 1963.
10	Biography in: "Dictionary of American Biography". Supplement Eight, 1966-1970, pages 593-595. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
11	Biography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 7, pages 451-457. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.
12	Out of his own pocket, he sent copies of his novel "The Jungle" to every member of the U.S. Congress and then-President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a voracious speed-reader who read several books a day, read Sinclair's novel and was horrified by the descriptions of conditions in the meat packing industry. He was inspired to champion for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which led to the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.
13	Pulitzer-winning American writer, he was the Democratic nominee for California Governor in 1934. He ran for office on other occasions as a Socialist.
14	Born at 9:00am-LMT

Movies

Writer

Title	Year	Status
There Will Be Blood	2007	novel "Oil!"
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	1978	TV Series novel - 2 episodes
The Gnome-Mobile	1967	book
Damaged Goods	1937	novel "Damaged Goods"
The Wet Parade	1932	from the novel by
Dzhimmi Khiggins	1928	novel "Jimmie Higgins"
The Money Changers	1920	novel
Kutató Sámuel	1919
The Adventurer	1917/II	novel
The Jungle	1914	novel

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Sergey Eyzenshteyn. Meksikanskaya fantasiya	1998	Documentary producer - original project
Que Viva Mexico	1979	Documentary producer
Time in the Sun	1940	Documentary producer
Death Day	1934	Short producer
Eisenstein in Mexico	1933	Documentary producer
Thunder Over Mexico	1933	producer
¡Que viva Mexico!	1932	producer
The Jungle	1914	executive producer

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Jungle	1914		Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times	2009	Documentary	Himself
The Great Depression	1993	TV Series documentary	Himself California Gubenatorial Candidate